The Derp
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It's really amazing to think that a handful of Russians managed to disrupt our democracy on a budget. How one floor of the troll farm fed info to another floor of the same troll farm.
The propaganda campaign was undoubtedly the most effective in politics ever, it even exceeded Russia's expectations. You know this because Assange was telling Uday to contend the validity of the elections if Trump lost. So you had Uday, by way of Assange, setting the groundwork with Russia in order to contend HRC's victory.
I personally don't think anyone except Trump himself expected him to win.
Really an interesting read:
Russian troll describes work in the infamous misinformation factory
The propaganda campaign was undoubtedly the most effective in politics ever, it even exceeded Russia's expectations. You know this because Assange was telling Uday to contend the validity of the elections if Trump lost. So you had Uday, by way of Assange, setting the groundwork with Russia in order to contend HRC's victory.
I personally don't think anyone except Trump himself expected him to win.
Really an interesting read:
Russian troll describes work in the infamous misinformation factory
For months, Vitaly Bespalov, 26, was one of hundreds of workers pumping out misinformation online at the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory responsible for explosive content seen by 126 million Americans in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election.
In many ways, the IRA was like a normal IT facility, Bespalov told NBC News in an exclusive broadcast interview. There were day shifts and night shifts, a cafeteria, and workers were seated at computers in a large open floor plan.
But in the squat, four-story concrete building on Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg, secured by camouflaged guards and turnstiles, bloggers and former journalists worked around the clock to create thousands of incendiary social media posts and news articles to meet specific quotas.
In many ways, the IRA was like a normal IT facility, Bespalov told NBC News in an exclusive broadcast interview. There were day shifts and night shifts, a cafeteria, and workers were seated at computers in a large open floor plan.
But in the squat, four-story concrete building on Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg, secured by camouflaged guards and turnstiles, bloggers and former journalists worked around the clock to create thousands of incendiary social media posts and news articles to meet specific quotas.
